Weekly operational update on COVID-19 - 21 December 2021

Overview

In this edition of the COVID-19 Weekly Operational Update, highlights of country-level actions and WHO support to countries include:

• Implementing national studies on the real-world effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in Armenia
• Delivering critical equipment and supplies in the Western Pacific to Vanuatu and Fiji
• Boosting Sierra Leone’s COVID-19 response and disease surveillance with laboratory commodities
• Bringing COVID-19 vaccination to the most vulnerable via the Global Health Cluster
• Supporting the global scale-up of infodemic management
• Strengthening genomic surveillance: WHO in collaboration with GISAID organizes training workshops for laboratory experts
• Conducting the first Universal Health and Preparedness Review (UHPR) Pilot: Bangui, Central African Republic
• Updates on WHO’s financing to support countries on COVID-19 response implementation to suppress transmission, reduce exposure, and protect the vulnerable and save lives
• Progress on a subset of global indicators that demonstrate country and global progress to end the acute phase of the pandemic